[NOT REQUIRED] Telescope pier

[Saturn488]

Wanna start making a pier but if anyone has one lying around they don't need or anywhere where I can purchase the tube from send me a PM

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

I do have a pier I just cannot use. Its approx 1.1m high has 250mm sq top plate and gussets...all steel


Included is qty 2 round alloy plates 250mm dia and 3 stainless threaded with nuts washers. Cannot remember thread size...big!


Is all solid steel with gussets....heavy and zero flex. Offers? Obviously it cost a lot to get made and I cannot sell it for anywhere near that cost. I have too many medical issues to use it. I'm in Lilydale


MA adapter not included...its MIA!

[Saturn488]

Oh nice! Just a few questions

- What are the dimesnions of the bottom base plate? Just need to see if it will fit on my pad I am making.

- Roughly how much does it weigh? (just a rough estimate will do)

- Not sure how much you are after, ball park figure?

I am seeing if can source some materials from a few people I know (if I can) but also considering if I can get my hands on one already done to save the trouble.

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

I think the base plate is 400mm SQ



It'll be ~150kg It was made not to flex and to hold huge mass. But I could roll it on an old skateboard!



Look I have no idea lets say $350.....The local welding shop made it up for me its well done heave and doesn't ring nor flex. You don't really need top plates to adj level as any EQ mount this is quite superfluous but I did get some sound alloy plates made


Cheers

[Saturn488]

Woah!

The base plate size as as big as my slab that I got haha. The slab I am making is going to be deep cause of the limted space i got.

Prob bit on the heavy side as well.

I will keep it as an option though might I might need something lighter and a about a 250-300 base.

Thank you though!

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Yep that's fine...its the mother of all piers...made to hold ya holden up

[Saturn488]

Originally Posted by wasyoungonce

Yep that's fine...its the mother of all piers...made to hold ya holden up

Haha.

If the area I had was bigger and it will be there permanently I would have purchased it right away.

I do really like the design of it. Just need the base a bit smaller and lighter

[Saturn488]

Still after one